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FIUV Papers published as Lulu book

I am delighted to announce that the Introduction and first 13 FIUV Position Papers, all of which have been published here in the course of 2012, can now be purchased hard copy from Lulu, the print-on-demand publisher.

Just to remind everyone, these papers address specific aspects of the 1962 Missal, in order to articulate the value of these points of the ancient liturgical tradition. The purpose is to inform the debate about the ancient liturgy in general, and about the 'Reform of the Reform', and particularly the debate about possible revisions to the 1962 Missal. The papers seek to defend the tradition with reference to magisterial documents wherever possible, and while the papers are short (less than 16oo words) they are quite heavily footnoted, with a lot of quotations in Latin and English to back up the argument. We have covered issues such as altar girls, communion on the hand, celebration ad orientem, the use of Latin and silence, and the use of the Vulgate (as opposed to the Neo-Vulgate); they discuss the issue of adding Prefaces to the 1962 Missal, and how the Extraordinary Form can contribute to the 'new evangelisation', and a number of other topics. You can view the full set here as downloadable pdfs, but if you want to give them to an open-minded priest or friend (for Christmas, perhaps?) then you can buy this inexpensive, attractive and slim volume (125 pages).

I think I would have enjoyed writing
additional reviews [on the blog] and could have weighed in much more heavily on
behalf of a project which has enjoyed my favour since I first became acquainted
with it, namely The FIUV Papers on the Liturgy, which discuss specific issues
concerning the 1962 Missal. The Papers have become one of the pillars of the
internet presence of the Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce.

The genius of the 13 papers, to
my mind, is that they do indeed teach and quite comprehensively, offering
important lessons about why we need to focus more or better on the very real
issue of what to do about the rupture in the continuity of our liturgical
tradition which has come to be and not through the inspiration of the Holy
Spirit. As important as it may be to get about the business of repairing, I
find the work done by these papers to be of a prior importance to any decision
about "reforming the reform" or "rebooting" after choosing
a restoration point and establishing principles for the organic development of
a restored Roman Rite. The FIUV Papers on the Liturgy really grapple with what
the Holy Father calls the mutual enrichment of the two forms of the Roman Rite.

Without wanting to be a
reductionist about assessing their worth, let me say simply that reading and
ruminating over the FIUV Papers on the Liturgy could serve as a marvellous
primer for anyone, clergy or laity, on how to address what often ends up being
controversial, doing so in a very different and respectful manner.

4 comments:

re: The Instruction Universae Ecclesiae makes it clear that Holy Communion is to be received kneeling and on the tongue at celebrations of the Extraordinary Form. Reception on the tongue is, in fact, the universal law of the Church, from which particular Episcopal Conferences have received derogations. The value of kneeling to show one’s humility in the presence of the sacred is affirmed in innumerable texts of Scripture and emphasised by Pope Benedict XVI in his book ‘The Spirit of the Liturgy’. The moment of receiving Holy Communion is the most appropriate of all to show this attitude. Reception on the tongue, while not universal in the Early Church, became so quickly, and this reflected the great concern shown by the Fathers that particles of the host not be lost, a concern reiterated in Pope Paul VI’s Memoriale Domini. In conclusion, the traditional manner of receiving Holy Communion, which evinces both humility and childlike receptivity...

how does one descern whether a priest is 'open-minded' to be concerned 'that particles of the host not be lost? especially if 'in the mitts', and out of unconsecrated hands is common for reception?

Catholic has been usurped and redefined meaning: 'according the hyper-imdividualism of parish, fed by gregarian diocesan, practice'.